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By BEN CONANT

The Mascenic baseball team trailed Wilton-Lyndeborough for nearly seven full innings Monday afternoon, but, down to their final out, scored on a heads-up walkoff to win 5-4 over the visiting Warriors.The game was a far cry from the 17-2 Mascenic...

By BEN CONANT

The ConVal track and field team hosted its lone home meet of the season on Friday, taking the occasion to honor its senior athletes. The meet marked the final opportunity for the senior Cougars – Jake Alonso, Anthony Cadwallader, Aida Davis, Jennae...

By BEN CONANT

Throw the final score out the window – ConVal’s 8-1 loss to visiting Hollis-Brookline Monday featured 7½ innings of playoff-caliber softball before being derailed by a shocking injury.“The bad part is nobody will know how great that game was if they...

By BEN CONANT

Conant and Mascenic came into Monday’s matchup at Humiston Field two very different baseball teams. One, the Orioles, has a college-bound senior pitcher, a strong bullpen, some big bats in the lineup and an experienced head coach. The other, Mascenic,...

By MIKE MUNHALL

Earth Day in Bennington was a two-day event.It began with a celebration at Jenn Sutton’s third-grade classroom at Pierce School, where I visited the class to make a presentation and congratulated the students on their recent salamander project they...

By BEN CONANT

The Mascenic softball team soared to a 7-0 shutout win over regional and interdivisional rival Conant thanks to a dazzling performance on both sides of the ball from senior pitcher Katalina Davis. “When Kat’s on, they’re not hitting, so she was...

By TOM TULLIO

Nine students and two teachers made the trip to Greensboro, Vt., to experience two minutes, 46 seconds of totality during Monday’s solar eclipse. Director of the Dublin School Perkin Observatory Matthew Saveliev and technology teacher Tom Tullio were...

By BEN CONANT

The ConVal boys’ tennis team comes into the season with almost no experience and a lot of work to do, but coach Mike Young relishes the challenge of building a full roster of players from the ground up. “You’ve got to start from the basics, which...

By BEN CONANT

Conant’s trademark defense was on full display in Friday’s NHIAA Division III quarterfinal win over Gilford, as the Oriole boys showcased end-to-end intensity to knock off the defending champion Golden Eagles. “Defense is always key for us,” said...

By GLORIA ANDERSON and JULIE ZIMMER

One in a series of articles about immigrants to New Hampshire and the people and experiences that help them learn a new culture and find work, housing and community.In an industrial building on Vose Farm Road in Peterborough, dozens of shelves are...

By MIKE MUNHALL

The ConVal Cougars Unified Basketball team took the floor Thursday evening to celebrate their graduating seniors and take on the team from Souhegan. Unified Sports joins people with and without intellectual disabilities on the same team. It was...

By MEG GOURLEY

Many New Hampshire towns were originally set up by emigres from Massachusetts. As such, the Massachusetts legislature wanted towns set up a certain way; they had to be roughly six miles square and broken up into about 63 lots, with one set aside to...

By STEPHANIE HURLEY and CAROL NELSON

Why vote for an amendment to the Community Revitalization Tax Relief Incentive RSA 79-E? Plans are already underway for zoning amendments to be presented on the ballot at Town Meeting on May 14, and we are writing to explain how we want to expand this...

By ANDY PETERSON

With the passing of a joyous holiday season, the chill of midwinter’s crystalline air surrounds us and our thoughts turn to plans and hopes for the coming year. With 2023 now in the rear-view mirror, I offer this real estate market update and forecast...

By BEN CONANT

The Conant girls’ basketball team is coming back down to earth a bit this season, but still looks like a strong competitor in Division III. The Orioles battled well against visiting Hopkinton in Jaffrey Monday night, but struggled to take care of the...

By MEG GOURLEY

In thinking about Jaffrey’s 250th celebration of the town’s incorporation, I began to wonder about settlement patterns in our little corner of New Hampshire. We know that New Hampshire’s (and Maine’s) earliest history is closely bound up with that of...

By BENJI ROSEN

When I was a young reporter cutting my journalism teeth in the Granite State during the 2016 presidential primary season, I cannot recall ever telling any of you this gut-wrenching piece of my family history: My cousin was the victim of a Hamas...

By DAN PETRONE

“What do you think about the schools?” This is a question many buyers ask their agent when looking to purchase a home.Certainly, the quality and availability of education and options in a specific area is very important to many home-buyers. Websites...

By BEN CONANT

Despite a strong defensive effort that forced a couple key turnovers, the Cougars saw both the football and their playoff hopes slip out of their grasp during Friday’s wet and wild homecoming football game between ConVal and Kingswood. “Now we’ve got...

By BEN CONANT

The ConVal boys’ soccer team is firing on all but one cylinder thus far this fall, and the Cougars hope a few small adjustments and some extra effort will set them right the rest of the way. ConVal’s one shortcoming was showcased in Tuesday’s 1-0 loss...

By MICHAEL T. MUNHALL

Bennington has gone through a significant transition. Bennington Garage has been sold, and longtime owner Joe MacGregor is taking a long-awaited retirement.He and his wife Leslie aren’t leaving Bennington, but he is going to take time for himself to...